Billiard-table



'(No Model.)

RHERMAN.

BILLIARD TABLE. No. 254,549. Patented Mar. 7,1882.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUDOLPH HERMAN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

BlLLlARD-TABLE.

SPEGIFICATIOIT forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,549, dated March 7, 1882.

Application filed January 21, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that LBUDOLPH HERMAN, of

' Cleveland, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in Billiard-Tables, of which the following is a specification.

The nature and objects of this invention will fully appear from the subjoined description when considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is an outside view of the corner of frame, showing leg attached. Fig. 2 is an inside view of same, showingconstruction of corner of frame and manner of attaching the leg. Fig. 3 is a detached View of the leg, showing the attaching-screw. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are detail views of construction and parts.

A represents the side rails, and B the end rails, of the frame'of a table. The end of rail A has one or more holes, a, made in the end, and provided with metal nuts a, let into the side for the bolts, which secure the frame together. A block, a is also secured to theinside of said rail, having a mortise for the reception of a like block, having a tenon on the end rail, B. The end rail, B, is also provided with a metal pin, 1), which enters a hole, b, in a metal plate on the end of side rail, A.

C is a metalplate divided intotwo equalparts diagonally, as seen in Fig. 6, one half of which is secured to the under edge of the side rail, A, and the other to the under edge of the end rail, B, and is provided with a hole, 0, made partly in each half. This plate is for the purpose of securing the leg to the frame. The top end of the leg is made fiatto set up against the said plate 0, and is provided with a metal nut, d, secured in the wood for the screw D, which secures it to the frame.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the frame is put together in the following manner: The end rails are put in place and bolted, as seen in Figs. 1 and 2. This brings the iron plate 0 together. Then thelegs are attached by means of the screw, which is put through the hole in said plate 0. A staple is put through a small hole in each halt of the plate and into the wood of the leg. This is to prevent the spreadingof the plate when the screw is put in.

The outside of the frame, at the corners, is provided with overlying pieces, which may be ornamental, and which also serve to cover the holes where the bolts go through. That on the end rail is made in three parts, the center part being fitted with bevel edges to slide in between the two side pieces. By this means it is made removable for the purpose of uncovering the bolt-heads, when desired, for taking the frame apart.

The advantages of this construction are simplicity, ease in putting frame together, and less bulk'in packing for shipment.

Having described myinvention, I claim- The improvement in billiard-tables consisting of the side rail, A, having the holes a and nuts a, and provided with the block a and half of plate 0, the end rail, B, having boltholes a, block a pin 1), and half-plate G, and the leg having screw D and nut d, all constructed and combined as shown and described.

RUDOLPH HERMAN.

Witnesses:

Gno. W. TIBBITTs, E. W. LAIRD. 

